Independence without Freedom: Iran's Foreign Policy

Acknowledgments

[ ix ] acknowledgments I would like to thank Ms. Lillian Frost, a scholar in her own right, for her unstinting and indispensable help in preparing this volume. It has been an enormously challenging task, particularly considering the condition of my health, which has limited my ability to contribute to the publication process, and she has performed it with flying colors. I thank Ms. Carah Ong, also a scholar in her own right, for recommending Lillian to me. I am grateful for the research assistance of W. Scott Harrop, a lecturer on the Middle East at the University of Virginia, who first inspired me to compile a collection of my essays into a new book. There is no appropriate way for me to thank Nesta Ramazani, my beloved wife and an author in her own right. She has read and edited selflessly and tirelessly everything I have written for publication over the past sixty years. I am indebted to my son, Jahan, a world-renowned scholar in English literature, for helping me every step of the way in the course of preparing this volume. He has made sure that I got it right. Finally, I thank heartily Ms. Penelope J. Kaiserlian, director of the University of Virginia Press from 2001 to 2012, for taking an extraordinary interest in the publication of this volume, as well as everyone else at the University of Virginia Press who has helped transform this manuscript into a book, including special thanks to Mark Mones, assistant managing editor, Joanne Allen, manuscript copy editor, and Richard K. Holway, history and social sciences acquisitions editor. independence without freedom ...